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School

University of Toronto St. George

Department

St. Michael's College Courses

Course

SMC103Y1

Professor

Michael O Connor

Semester

Winter

Description

Smc206
January 21, 2013
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• Music in the bible
• Begbie calls it music in action in biblical times because he wants to stress that music
is something that is done, it is about activities that are musical
• We have little evidence of what biblical music sounded like, no recordings, little
archeological evidence, we are in the dark about the musical sound in the bible
• Two streams of thought:
• Jewish stream: all the first Christians were Jews. First Christians worshiped in
Jewish ways
• Where did Jewish people make music?
• The temple: two temples. First built by Solomon 1000bce destroyed by
Babylonians 400 years later. The Greeks and Romans gave permission for the
Jews to rebuild when they knocked the Babylonians off. It was built by Herod
around Jesus birth. The temple was a place of sacrifice (animals, food, burn
things) people who deal in sacrifice are priests. Place of ritual. Place of
hierarchal construction. Constructed of courtyards outer: Gentiles then women,
then men, then, holy people, then the holy of the holy - meant to reflect the
variation of the whole of creation and the path to god. Music was performed by
trained specialists.
• Heterophonic: signing the same harmony but